UFC and MMA are fads that will fade like acid wash jeans!

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Obvious troll is obvious

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Oh they def. make money. I just don't see the point to them so I don't spend my money on them. If two bums fight on the street then cops arrest them. If two men fight in an arena in Las Vegas, they can be on a Wheaties box. I guess it plays to man's carnal lusts. Dog fighting is gross and disgusting but two men fighting is awesomez.

I don't see how people can't understand why people don't like them. There's a difference between not understand and not liking it.

People like to see fights. It's been the same since the beginning of time. I don't buy whenever someone says they don't understand why people like seeing people fight and get hurt.

 

[Paroxysm]

People have been fighting each other in h2h combat for thousands of years. There's honor in it.

 

[Marx]

I rather enjoy watching UFC and MMA...

 

[Duke]

I rather enjoy watching UFC and MMA...

As do I, but I don't watch it as much as NFL football.

 

[Norman Osborn]

As do I.........please don't let me be misunderstood

 

[Marx]

As do I, but I don't watch it as much as NFL football.

I definitely watch NFL more, but I do enjoy MMA.

 

[Paroxysm]

NHL for me. t:

 

[Marx]

NHL for me. t:

Well, you do live in hockey country.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Remember Skateboarding and the X-Games? How awesome they were and how many of us tried and epic failed and skateboarding over them? Yeah, I see UFC and MMA like that.

 

[Calvin]

I didn't think MMA was even big enough to be considered a fad. I think I've known maybe two people in my whole life that were into it.

 

[redhawk23]

You really think its only 20 somethings that follow fads and just watch whatever is popular?

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

I just don't get why anybody would watch two sweaty men beat the crap out of each other or a handful of sweaty men wearing speedos fake beating the crap out of each other.

Do you watch movies, if yes WHY? It's fake action just like pro wrestling it's just not live in front of an audience.

 

[SpideyVille]

Remember Skateboarding and the X-Games? How awesome they were and how many of us tried and epic failed and skateboarding over them? Yeah, I see UFC and MMA like that.

I still watch the X-Games sometimes despite the fact that I've never stepped foot on a skateboard.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

whats gonna happen to UFC and MMA as a whole is what always does when they go after the 20 something target market that have no personal connection, no opinions of their own. They are like willows in the wind, they bend to whatever is currently popular, so they will move on to the next fad.... as I said, they cannot form their own opinions on anything!.......

it will happen....happened to Wrestling which was so hot from 96-2001 that every network wanted wrestling, every kid had Austin 3:16 shirts..that faded...............happening now since kids latched onto the Poker craze...every Network has some sort of poker show, stories and news pieces about kids having "poker parties"...starting to fade......................Having a young audience is more of a curse than a blessing, judging by history.

Just a year or two ago UFC was averaging 60,000 buys....................now that its a fad, everything is good...but not if...................but when all the casual fans move onto something else? ! ..........................will MMA be able to survive since basically MMA is just UFC...all the IFLs. this MMA fad has been around for a little over 20 years. BIG DEAL! doesnt have the history of a Boxing, thats been around for over 100 years and can survive anything. When will the popularity end? Will anyone besides the hardcore fans be around in a couple years?

A lot of the meatheads and average folks I see wearing tapout shirts at the sports bar/restaurants that show the pay per views are passed their 20's .

 

[E-Man]

Two things.

1. People have been saying this since 2005 when the UFC blew up. Every year people have been saying that they have peaked, and that there is no way they'll grow. Every year since then the UFC has had banner years more profitable than the last.

2. Wrestling is not a fad. Wrestling is in something of a dark period, but it still is more popular than a lot of other tv shows on cable. It's still going to be on tv for a long time to come. Wrestling's worst day is still better than some people's best day, so it's not a fad. If it was a fad it would have died off in the early 90s when Hulk Hogan was getting old.

Now here are some gifs.

 

[Kane52630]

Wrestling isn't a sport. It's a speedo soap opera.

I am sure MMA is entertaining to some but I don't care to watch one sweaty guy beat another sweaty guy senseless. I just don't get any enjoyment out of it and I don't understand why people would. If I am watching football and someone gets hurt...I don't stand up and cheer or throw my beer in the air. It's barbaric. I think NASCAR is dumb. I think televised golf is dumb. I think televised bowling is dumb. I am sure some people get entertainment out of it but that doesn't change what I think about those sports.

Sounds like someone didn't like their P.E. class back in high school.

 

[Paroxysm]

Sounds like someone didn't like their P.E. class back in high school.

I loved my P.E class, especially wrestling but that **** on t.v in not a sport. It's a show of athleticism.

 

[Kane52630]

I loved my P.E class, especially wrestling but that **** on t.v in not a sport. It's a show of athleticism.

I'm talking about MMA not pro wrestling.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Two things.

1. People have been saying this since 2005 when the UFC blew up. Every year people have been saying that they have peaked, and that there is no way they'll grow. Every year since then the UFC has had banner years more profitable than the last.

As far as sports are concerned UFC is a bottom feeder. It's banner year would be a miserable SUNDAY were we talking about Football. Sure it's a fad. Or I'm not sure how much semantics you want to argue, but by my working definition it certainly is.

2. Wrestling is not a fad. Wrestling is in something of a dark period, but it still is more popular than a lot of other tv shows on cable. It's still going to be on tv for a long time to come. Wrestling's worst day is still better than some people's best day, so it's not a fad. If it was a fad it would have died off in the early 90s when Hulk Hogan was getting old.

Fads don't necessarily completely go away, it just gets less popular, and by that metric, yeah Wrestling was a fad. It enjoyed a more than cult status for a relatively brief period of time. Doesn't matter that it's been around for much longer. UFC seems to me to be like Poker, X-Treme Sports and Bodybuilding, and it's taking much the same track.

 

[Paroxysm]

I'm talking about MMA not pro wrestling.

You should clarify that then because you quoted the entire post and he did start by saying wrestling was fake and they don't teach MMA in schools.

 

[chaseter]

People like to see fights. It's been the same since the beginning of time. I don't buy whenever someone says they don't understand why people like seeing people fight and get hurt.

That's fine, I don't. I don't like to see two mean beat each other to try and cause head concussions as I find it brutish and savage. That's fine some people like it. I don't and I will never understand the appeal of it. It's just gross to me that people are cheering on two men beating each other. People love carnage but society frowns upon it if it isn't a sanctioned sport. It makes no sense.

People have been fighting each other in h2h combat for thousands of years. There's honor in it.

HAHA umk.

We should all fight because of the honor. People in Afghanistan think it's honorable to kill their daughters if they believe that they have brought dishonor upon their family. Everyone goes and watches it. It's a spectator event. There are a lot of problems with honor.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

As far as sports are concerned UFC is a bottom feeder. It's banner year would be a miserable SUNDAY were we talking about Football. Sure it's a fad. Or I'm not sure how much semantics you want to argue, but by my working definition it certainly is.

Fads don't necessarily completely go away, it just gets less popular, and by that metric, yeah Wrestling was a fad. It enjoyed a more than cult status for a relatively brief period of time. Doesn't matter that it's been around for much longer. UFC seems to me to be like Poker, X-Treme Sports and Bodybuilding, and it's taking much the same track.

I don't even watch wrestling anymore and I know that's not true. WWE is way more popular than Poker, X-treme Sports (maybe aside from a few stars like Tony Hawk, who's retired I believe) and Bodybuilding. It's been popular for decades. No way wrestling is a fad if it still sells out arenas and tons of merchandise.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

That's fine, I don't. I don't like to see two mean beat each other to try and cause head concussions as I find it brutish and savage. That's fine some people like it. I don't and I will never understand the appeal of it. It's just gross to me that people are cheering on two men beating each other. People love carnage but society frowns upon it if it isn't a sanctioned sport. It makes no sense.

I wasn't trying to sway you. I just don't like when people say they don't understand something that's obvious to understand when they actually mean they don't like it. But you're more sincere about not understand the appeal of fighting.

 

[E-Man]

As far as sports are concerned UFC is a bottom feeder. It's banner year would be a miserable SUNDAY were we talking about Football. Sure it's a fad. Or I'm not sure how much semantics you want to argue, but by my working definition it certainly is.

Fads don't necessarily completely go away, it just gets less popular, and by that metric, yeah Wrestling was a fad. It enjoyed a more than cult status for a relatively brief period of time. Doesn't matter that it's been around for much longer. UFC seems to me to be like Poker, X-Treme Sports and Bodybuilding, and it's taking much the same track.

It's not fair to compare MMA to football because football has been around far longer. It's also football, the most popular sport in the United States. That's like saying that every pass rusher who isn't Reggie White is just a flash in the pan. Football is the king, and that is indisputable.

What MMA is more comparable to are the combat sports that make up MMA such as boxing, wrestling, judo, jiu-jitsu, muay thai, etc. Compared to those MMA is doing really well, and the UFC has dominated the pay per view market for years now. Outside of the few Pac-man and Mayweather fights the UFC has the most purchased pay per views every year. It keeps growing year after year, and they are expanding their business into other markets. They just recently held an event in a stadium for the first time, and they are looking to do it again here in the United States. They are making strides and moving into the sport boxing was in for decades. People keep saying that they are regressing when that's not true at all.